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My wife (7mos pregnant at the time) 2-year old daughter, and myself, were Colorado Springs residents for two days, living with my wife's parents in Peregrine...it was quite an exciting/stressful welcome, to say the least...
A few days later, The Gazette featured my daughter and I on the front page (photo attached) Like I said, it was quite the first week in Colorado Springs :-) (Submitted by Tim Tierney)

On June 23, 2012 I was hiking uphill on FS Trail #652 which runs from Barr Camp to just above Glen Cove. I came out of the trees a few minutes after one and that's when I first saw the plume and took this picture. (Submitted by Andy Lyon)

This picture was taken near the trailhead and the last from the Pikes Peak Highway. By around 3 p.m., when I reached Highway 24, the fire was visible on the ridge above Cascade. (Submitted by Andy Lyon)

I had lived on Linger Way in Mountain Shadows for 19 years. Of the nineteen homes on our street, fifteen of them were a complete loss. The pictures are the before and after of my garden. A garden that I loved spending time in and put many, many hours of labor into it, mostly correcting my own mistakes.
You hear people say that it is just stuff, that it can be replaced. Yes, TVs, blenders, treadmills and the like can be replaced, but family heirlooms cannot be. Those first few days after the fire when I was coming to terms with our loss, I felt like someone that I loved had died, that was the intensity of my emotional pain.
Because my husband had grown up sailing on the east coast, he wanted to get back to that even before the fire. So about two months after the fire we relocated to the west coast of Florida so my husband could get back into boating. The move has not been easy for me, I left behind a ton of friends and those beautiful mountains. (Submitted by Sylvia Price)

I had lived on Linger Way in Mountain Shadows for 19 years. Of the nineteen homes on our street, fifteen of them were a complete loss. The pictures are the before and after of my garden. A garden that I loved spending time in and put many, many hours of labor into it, mostly correcting my own mistakes.
You hear people say that it is just stuff, that it can be replaced. Yes, TVs, blenders, treadmills and the like can be replaced, but family heirlooms cannot be. Those first few days after the fire when I was coming to terms with our loss, I felt like someone that I loved had died, that was the intensity of my emotional pain.
Because my husband had grown up sailing on the east coast, he wanted to get back to that even before the fire. So about two months after the fire we relocated to the west coast of Florida so my husband could get back into boating. The move has not been easy for me, I left behind a ton of friends and those beautiful mountains. (Submitted by Sylvia Price)

Us on our "doorstep". (Submitted by Doug and Pam Nuenke)

Friends helping us dig through ash. (Submitted by Doug and Pam Nuenke)